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Category Archives: Privacy
Flaws in the Laws: Part I – Employment Drug Testing
Prior to 1987, there was no law that regulated drug testing of employees or applicants for employment in Iowa. Employers were free to test an employee, or an applicant for employment, for any drug or substance with impunity. Since 1987, … Continue reading
Posted in Fairness, General, Privacy, Substance Abuse and Alcoholism/War on Drugs
Tagged Iowa Employee drug testing, Joan Hester, Mark O. Lambert, Phillip Wise, Ralph Rosenberg, Rich Running, Section 730.5, Steve King, Steven Sukup, Tom Vilsack, Tony Bisignano
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A Horrible Decision
On Monday, the Court said it was constitutionally okay to take a sample of “skin cells”. They might just as well take an arm or a leg, your heart, your brain, or your medical records. Continue reading
Posted in Criminal Justice, Fairness, Issues, Privacy
Tagged DNA, Fourth Amendment, Justice Ginsburg, Justice Kagan, Justice Scalia, Justice Stotomayor, Maryland v. King
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No Slam Dunk
Last September I wrote that the United States Supreme Court was about to hear oral arguments in a case called Florence v. Board of Chosen Freeholders. As you’ll recall, this is what I had to say about it: Albert Florence … Continue reading
Posted in Criminal Justice, Issues, Privacy
Tagged 3rd Circuit Court of Appeals, Albert Florence, Fourth Amendment, Joel Rifken, Justice Kennedy, strip search, Timothy McVeigh, United States Supreme Court
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Losing More than Liberty
We have allowed the government to ransack our bodies. Continue reading
Parental Rights and Wrongs
it’s so strange that even the strange Justice Antonin Scalia concurred in the opinion of the majority by saying: “I join the Court’s opinion, which reasonably applies our precedents, strange though they may be.” Continue reading
Every Step You Take . . .
The eeriness of Orwell’s prediction didn’t occur in a year, it took time. Government in this country has not gone as far as England, but if we’re not vigilant, it will be a matter of time. Continue reading
Posted in Issues, Privacy
Tagged Automated Traffic Enforcement Systems (ATES), Cedar Rapids, due process, Fawkes-Lee and Ryan, George Orwell, Privacy, public safety, Sting
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